The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, conducted by music performance professor Stephen Peterson, performed
John Corigliano’s “Circus Maximus” at Cornell University’s Bailey Hall in
February. The piece — which employs a marching band, two sirens, and a shotgun, among more
traditional instruments — is designed to create an...

It was difficult for me to breathe by the time I’d reached my room in Quito. Ten thousand feet
above sea level, the fourth floor seemed more like the forty-fourth floor, and the backpack which had
weighed under 30 pounds in Pennsylvania now weighed at least 655. In the next ten days I would hike
higher...